Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Mediocre, at best. Slow and dragged on. Shorten it to 2 hours and it's golden. It's not, so it fails.

Michael Clayton - Amazing. Everything about it is awesome. However, it's VERY complex and mind bending. You have to think, so be prepared. I still feel like I'm missing key details of exactly what happened. Gotta see it again.

Across the Universe - Perfect is one word that comes to mind. It just works. And, contrary to many people I bet, the movie is best viewed sober. Trust me.

WTF was that at the end,you have officers who have called for help and are trapped and yet it takes forever for the troops to arrive.Does anyone think that it was meant that way i.e. they were supposed to die and the cartel had gotten to dispatch,other officers etc,or did I miss something?

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WTF was that at the end,you have officers who have called for help and are trapped and yet it takes forever for the troops to arrive.Does anyone think that it was meant that way i.e. they were supposed to die and the cartel had gotten to dispatch,other officers etc,or did I miss something?

It's been a while since I saw it, but IIRC in real time it was supposed to be something like 5 to 7 minutes. An analysis I read indicated that with units being spread out, that was not a totally unrealistic response time.

WTF was that at the end,you have officers who have called for help and are trapped and yet it takes forever for the troops to arrive.Does anyone think that it was meant that way i.e. they were supposed to die and the cartel had gotten to dispatch,other officers etc,or did I miss something?

i recently downloaded it to watch again and noticed they replaced all the Taco Bell references with Pizza Hut. they even had the original actors re-record their dialogue and digitally replaced the Taco Bell graphics with Pizza Hut. WTF!